The original post: /r/television by /u/Westernman899 on 2026-02-24 01:07:41+00:00.

Maybe a hot take, maybe not, but hey, I’m sticking with it. The first 6 because it ended with Syndicate in season 6, but everything in those first 6 seasons is brilliant in my opinion. I don’t remember a weak episode in that mythology. Smoking Man, Syndicate, Bount Hunter, Black Oil, Deep Throat, Mr.X, Krycek, Russians, Max, Aliens and various early blue book projects.

Episodes are this:

Pilot, Deep Throat, Fallen Angel, The Erlenmeyer Flash (Season 1)

Little Green Man, Duane Barry, Ascension, Colony, End Game, Anasazi (season 2)

The Blessing Way, Paper Clip, Nisei, 731, Piper Maru, Apocrypha, Talitha Cumi (season 3)

Herenwolk, Musing of a Cigarette Smoking Man, Tunguska, Terma, Tempus Fugit, Max, Getshmane (season 4)

Redux, Redux II, Patient X, The Red and the Black, The End (season 5)

The Beginning, Two Fathers, One Son, Biogenesis and if you want call Dreamland I and II mythology (season 6)

I am absolutely fascinated when people say mythology is wrong. Don’t get me wrong, after the 6th season the mythology really drops and it’s a far cry from the first 6 seasons. But looking at these mythological episodes from the first 6 seasons, I don’t see a single weak episode. Lots of great, some episodes among the best episodes of the series with lots of legendary scenes and tense moments. It’s also strange to me when they say that people don’t understand the mythology, and in my opinion the first 6 seasons are very clear, and I’m not saying that now after many viewings, but even after the first viewing, it was quite clear to me.

I’m saying all this because it seems to me that there’s a revision of history going on because I’m an original fan of the series, which means I watched it in 1993 when it came out, and I know very well that the X-Files were watched in those early seasons for the mythology. Yes, we loved the monster of the week episodes, but we loved them for the mythology, and people on the old forums talked about mythology 95% of the time. And reading it today, it feels like there’s some kind of revision of history going on, like I’m living in the Twilight Zone, to be honest.

Btw., I really recommend you watch this if you have time. In the video description…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYQ0Um9VlhM

Being a fan of the show since I was a kid, I decided I wanted to do the ultimate explainer video of the X-Files mythology. Rewatching the show to make the video, I discovered countless things I didn’t know before and it became more interesting than I realized it would be. There’s a reason behind everything, I promise.

It’s nuts how well researched the conspiracy is in terms of pulling from real world conspiracies, historic events, Interviews, occult lore, and so on.